It ig therefore the most natural thing.in the world for the Chinese to object to the outsider no matter' where he may have come from. That he is non-Chinese is suMicient condemnation. Being non-Chinese must be a menace beeauss it has: always been true that the outsider hat been a menace to Chinese civilization,, And whenever the out sider has become too prominent measures have been taken to rid the country of his presence.
Three times in the history of Christian." Missions have the Chinese freed themselves from the supposed tyranny of the western teachers, First in the Ninth Century. Then we find a period of 200 years during which for Figicly excluded. Returning.
Thirteonth Century the Eh missionaries again laboured to establish a Church in China for more than 108 years, but again they were expelled. The third attempt was in the Sixteenth Century whan St. Francis Xavier came to the Orient. By the middle of the Eighteenth Century thix movement! had run ily course. The final attempt of both Catholic and Protestant missionaries commenced 100 years ago and continues to make headway. The Boxer Uprising in 1900, ani the attempts to stir up anti-foreign sentiment this year, are clear indications that many Chinese hope to see a repetition of the former attempt to rid China of the foreign menace.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.